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From: hallett@pet3.uucp (Jeff Hallett x5163	)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: :=
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Date: 5 Oct 89 14:01:57 GMT
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In article <6054@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) writes:
>I personally would like to see the left arrow back. It makes more sense
>than colon equal (gag, why couldn't they at least have used <- ?) and both
>of these are easier to explain than the use of just the equals sign for
>assignment.

I agree.  In  C, couldn't one  just  use "#define  <- ="?   I probably
could just check this myself, but I'm too shiftless. This might help a
little. 

Just a thought.


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